BART’s Role in the Region
Join BART Director Barnali Ghosh to hear about BART’s plans to run safe, clean, and reliable service, and how the transit fiscal cliff impacts quality of life in the Bay Area.
Barnali Ghosh was elected to represent BART District 3 the BART Board of Directors in November 2024. District 3, is in both Contra Costa and Alameda Counties and includes Hercules, Pinole, San Pablo, Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany, and the majority of the City of Berkeley including the University of California Berkeley.
Public transit has been essential to Barnali as an immigrant who lived without a driver’s license for her first 15 years in the United States. Barnali served as Chair of Berkeley’s Transportation Commission and Vice-Chair of its Planning Commission, where she worked to connect housing, equity, climate goals, and pedestrian/bike safety to city transportation policies.